Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, February 2 at 06:17 PM, quoth Derek Martin: > Another notable difference is in new mail notification and mailbox > switching. Mutt's maildir implementation is better at remembering > that you have new mail than its mbox implementation is.

Re: question marks in default index_format (solved)

2009-02-02 Thread Paul E Condon
In the manual at www.mutt.org/doc/manual, there is no section 3.277. But there is documantation of status_format in section 6.1 and it describes the use of the question mark. The description of status_format in the man page also describes the use of the question mark. Thanks to all -- Paul E Co

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Christian Ebert
* Derek Martin on Monday, February 02, 2009 at 18:17:14 -0600 > On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:05:39PM +0100, sigi wrote: >> Thanks a lot for all your replies! I've changed my mailboxes to >> maildirs now - and am not messing around with two formats anymore. :) > > There *are* advantages to both...

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:05:39PM +0100, sigi wrote: > Thanks a lot for all your replies! I've changed my mailboxes to > maildirs now - and am not messing around with two formats anymore. :) There *are* advantages to both... Their performance characteristics (and behavior, unfortunately) are d

Re: question marks in default index_format

2009-02-02 Thread Michael Tatge
* On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 12:21PM -0700 Paul E Condon (pecon...@mesanetworks.net) muttered: > set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s" > > I don't understand the string inside parentheses. Where can > I find an explanation? Question marks often invoke some sort > of conditional

Re: question marks in default index_format

2009-02-02 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-02-02, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm puzzled by the default index_format which is, I think: > > set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s" > > I don't understand the string inside parentheses. Where can > I find an explanation? Question marks often invoke some sort > of c

Re: question marks in default index_format

2009-02-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, February 2 at 12:21 PM, quoth Paul E Condon: >I'm puzzled by the default index_format which is, I think: > >set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s" > >I don't understand the string inside parentheses. Where can >I find

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread sigi
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:29:25AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Paul E Condon [02-02-09 01:03]: > > > > There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir format. > > I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might > > work very nicely if you give it a clea

question marks in default index_format

2009-02-02 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm puzzled by the default index_format which is, I think: set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s" I don't understand the string inside parentheses. Where can I find an explanation? Question marks often invoke some sort of conditional action, but I don't see them in printf d

Re: question about saving emails

2009-02-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, February 2 at 11:05 AM, quoth Christian Brabandt: > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Kyle Wheeler wrote: >> On Friday, January 30 at 03:26 PM, quoth Paul E Condon: >>> What would be a save-hook that delivers equivalent logic to what >>> is built in? >

Re: line wrap in the index?

2009-02-02 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday, February 1 at 11:14 PM, quoth Paul E Condon: > I have several verbose correspondents who write little essays in the > Subject header. If I could put Subject: field last, I could see > several fields, like From; that are more important. B

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Paul E Condon [02-02-09 01:03]: > > There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir format. > I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might > work very nicely if you give it a clean, well maintained mbox format > email directory, but it sounds like that is

Re: mboxes and maildirs in .muttrc

2009-02-02 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Anders! On Mon, 02 Feb 2009, Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote: > > There is a program mb2md that converts mbox format to maildir > > format. > > I have found it difficult to use, but I have made it work. mb2md might > > work very nicely if you give it a clean, well maintained mbox format > > emai

Re: question about saving emails

2009-02-02 Thread Christian Brabandt
Hi Kyle! On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Friday, January 30 at 03:26 PM, quoth Paul E Condon: > > What would be a save-hook that delivers equivalent logic to what > > is built in? > > There isn't one. To my knowledge, the target of a save-hook cannot > depend on the matched patte